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The International Essential Tremor Foundation has just announced dates for their 2019 Essential Tremor Education Forums… and they’re coming to Hartford on Saturday, June 1st! You won’t want to miss this exciting event, so be sure to mark your calendars!

Our next Essential Tremor support group meeting is scheduled for June 3rd in Milford. Licensed Professional Counselor Lisa Taylor-Austin will facilitate a discussion on coping with the emotional aspects of ET. Details will be published shortly.

Lisa Taylor-Austin is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and a National Certified Forensic Mental Health Evaluator. Lisa holds a Master of Science in Counseling from SUNY Brockport (CACREP accredited) and a Bachelor of Science in Developmental and Behavioral Disabilities. Additionally, she completed post-masters coursework in counseling, education, gangs and substance abuse at SUNY Brockport, California State University at Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, and the University of New England. Lisa has been an instructor at Yale University, Loyola Marymount University and the University of Southern California.

The National Geographic Channel has announced plans to air Deep Brain Stimulation surgery LIVE for the first time ever at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 25th! Check your cable TV provider for the correct channel number. (It’s 162 on Cablevision).

CAN TARGETED NUTRITION HELP ESSENTIAL TREMORS?presented by Dr. Constance Green

Dr. Constance Greene has a Doctoral and Masters degree in Counseling and Clinical Nutrition and a Baccalaureate in Nursing . A practicing Certified Holistic Nurse in private practice, she is Board Certified in Integrative Medicine. Dr. Greene is also a licensed and credentialed Registered Nurse, Dietitian, Functional Nutritionist, and Nurse Amma Therapist, who has received the prestigious Clinician’s Forum Award from the Community Health Center Practitioners of New England as an Outstanding Provider of the Year.

Because ET has no celebrity spokesperson and rarely receives media coverage, people living with essential tremor often experience embarrassment and frustration in public venues and social situations. Lack of public awareness of the condition leads people to assume our tremors are caused by anxiety or nervousness, drug withdrawal, alcoholic DT’s, etc. It’s encouraging to see some mention of essential tremor beginning to creep into the media: